OneThousandOne represents the amount of time, verbally, that it takes to count to one second. In
this one second of time, a great thing happened at Nebraska Medicine. In fact, several
great things probably happened. A patient was cured, a researcher found the missing link, a nurse
treated an injury, a doctor comforted a family or maybe a child just smiled.

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Susie Young doesn’t know what it feels like to be stabbed. But if she could describe the feeling, she thinks she would come very close. It’s a pain she endured for years — a sharp, piercing pain that started in the back of her neck and traveled to her eye — “like someone was stabbing me with a knife,” she says.

When Sandy Washa’s sister fell to the floor in the middle of Walmart
while she and her family were vacationing in Greeley, Colo., she
initially felt a rush of fear and panic. Her sister, Julie Wichman, had
experienced several seizures prior to this incident, but her doctors
were always nearby — not 500 miles away.

Rich Kyler is living his dream. A detective and member of the Omaha SWAT team, Rich had dreamed of working on the police force since he was 15 years old. Nothing was going to take that from him now. Not even a broken back.

The Movement Disorders Clinic, the most comprehensive in the Midwest, is
helping restore independence and quality of life to many patients who
thought they had to live with the debilitating effects of excessive or
involuntary movement disorders.

Last fall, when Amy Most felt something odd below her rib cage “like a
little hiccupping going on inside,” it was such a vague sensation that
she simply dismissed it. Even after it happened six times in three
weeks.

Since ancient times, man has been seeking to understand the inner
workings of the human brain. Weighing in at about three pounds with an
estimated 100 billion cells, the human brain still remains a mystery in
many respects.